Val de Bagnes commune (Valais/Wallis canton, Switzerland)

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Azure two mullets Argent either side of a fir tree with leaves Or and eradicated trunk Brunatre in base a couple Proper in a bath-tub of the Third.
Christopher Southworth

On 1 January 2021 the communes of Bagnes and Vollèges merged to the new commune of Val de Bagnes (see below).

From the website notrehistoire.ch (in French):

This vast municipality, which occupies almost the entire Bagnes valley, was first mentioned in 1150 under the name Banies (from the Latin Balnea: baths). Its name likely refers to the sulphurous baths already known to the Romans and which were very popular in the Middle Ages until they were buried by a massive rockslide in 1545. The coat of arms of Bagnes, which depicts these medieval baths, is known as a "canting" coat of arms. The oldest heraldic documents are the thaler of 1498 and Stumpf's Chronicle of 1548.
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• Bagnes (old)
• Vollèges

• Entremont district
• Valais/Wallis canton
• Switzerland
  
  
• Notes sur les armoiries d'Orsières et de Bagnes (by Léon Dupont Lachenal, 1939, French)

Bagnes (until 31 December 2020)

Azure, [a Couple] in a Bath-tub Or.
Željko Heimer, 13 March 2000

This flag is canting, because "to bath" is baigner in French.
Ivan Sache, 12 March 2000

Vollèges (until 31 December 2020)

Azure two cliffs Argent issuant from a base Vert overall a pine tree eradicated Proper and in chief two mullets of five Or.
Christopher Southworth